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November 15, 2025

The Wrong Red Wave: More Than 250 “Democratic Socialists” Now in Office

By Selwyn Duke

Meet Hannah Shvets, a 20-year-old Cornell University sophomore and one of the newest members of New York’s Ithaca Common Council.

Shvets is also a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

She additionally has membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as does New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, whom she admires.

Joining her on the Council is newly elected Jorge DeFendini. He’s not a member of the CPUSA — just the DSA. But both are part of a new old-style “red” wave:

More than 250 DSA members now hold office across the U.S.

And, reportedly, 90 percent of them have been elected just since 2019.
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November 12, 2025

Cop Being Investigated for “Misgendering” Man in Drag

By Selwyn Duke

When dressing as a woman in the war-based sitcom M.A.S.H., character Corporal Klinger’s goal was expulsion from the military. It was taken as given back then (1970s), after all, that a man with such a compulsion had psychological issues. But times have changed. Now you may be punished if you take issue with a man in drag entering a women’s restroom.

And, in fact, this is exactly what’s happening to a hapless Georgia police officer.
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November 11, 2025

Red Alert: Why Support for Socialism Is Growing

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a question: What percentage of all the people who’ve ever lived on Earth is the average American richer than?

Answer: 99.9 percent.

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet many people are still dissatisfied. They feel as if they’ve been denied some birthright, some societal bequeathment. And, recent survey data have shown, a frightening number of Americans are embracing socialism as remedy. Why, one poll finds that more college students favor it (67 percent view it positively) than “capitalism” (40 percent).

A striking result of this is the recent New York City mayoral-race victory of communist-in-socialist-sheep’s-clothing Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Among Big Apple voters 18-29, 72 percent of men and 84 percent of women voted for him.

Yet, notes one commentator, socialism has “failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried.” So why is it again gaining currency?
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November 10, 2025

Winning WWII Was “NOT Worth the Result,” Says Sad D-Day Veteran

By Selwyn Duke

The “sacrifice” necessary to win WWII “wasn’t worth the result that it is now.” So said a Good Morning Britain (GMB) guest on Friday in a now viral interview clip. And if anyone is entitled to make such a comment, it is that guest: 100-year-old Alec Penstone.

Penstone, you see, is a Royal Navy veteran who was involved in the famed and storied D-Day landings in 1944. As is said, he “paid his dues” — in spades.

Mr. Penstone’s comment certainly surprised GMB hosts Adil Ray and Kate Garraway, too, the latter of whom consoled him. It didn’t surprise, however, the millions of internet viewers who sympathize with the centenarian’s lament. That is, he and his comrades fought for “freedom,” he explained — yet today things are “a darn sight worse.”
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November 8, 2025

Equality, That Bold Lie? Or Inequality, That Beautiful Default?

By Selwyn Duke

“Equality is unfair!” proclaimed TV curmudgeon Archie Bunker in a 1974 All in the Family episode. “What’s the point of a man working hard all of his life trying to get someplace,” he bellowed, gesticulating wildly, “if all he’s going to do is wind up equal?!”

It was a hilarious scene and line and, as always, Archie’s argumentation left something to be desired. Ironically, though, his understanding of equality still might’ve surpassed that of our radical egalitarians.

After all, the latter act as if “equality,” per se, is a somehow meaningful measure. But imagine this:

You bring your child to a doctor for a check-up. Upon its conclusion you ask, “How is he?”

“Oh, good news,” replies the physician. “Your boy’s health is equal to that of all the other kids I treated today.”

Would you be reassured by this answer? I mean, the doc might’ve spent that morning working in a pediatric cancer ward.

Seem ridiculous? Well, consider that so much commentary today presupposes that achieving a state of outcome equality would somehow be beneficial.
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November 7, 2025

In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly?

By Selwyn Duke

Escape from New York is the name of a 1981 film. Now it’s also, many fear, going to be a reality with Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s impending socialist makeover of NYC. Why, commentator Bill O’Reilly has predicted that his ascendancy will spark an exodus of 765,000-one million Big Apple residents. This, of course, would involve the loss of significant capital.

Yet this is all predicated on the idea that Mamdani’s promises reflect principles more than positions of convenience. And while he is a radical, he’s also a power seeker who surely aspires to higher office. So questions arise:

Will Mamdani go the full socialist monty and risk crashing NYC?

Or will he, being the consummate politician he was on the campaign trail, practice some Machiavellian moderation?
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November 6, 2025

Stopping the Bleeding: Time for a Moratorium on Immigration?

By Selwyn Duke

“The definition of insanity,” the apocryphal saying goes, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Is there an exception to this rule? Or does it apply to everything, including immigration?

Writing at Fox News, Nate Morris has his answer: There must be a moratorium on immigration, he insists — stat.

Furthermore, he essentially states, yesterday’s election results help illustrate why.

Unfortunately for Morris, however, he’s walking up the down staircase of immigrationism. Immigrationism, do note, is this:

the doctrine that immigration is always good, always necessary, must never be questioned, and must be the one constant in an ever-changing universe of policy.

It’s also a fashions-forged mind chain that shackles thinking.
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November 5, 2025

Migrant-Youth Crime Exploding in Various European Countries (Yet Some Won’t Prosecute Under-15s)

By Selwyn Duke

After evaluating 45,000 youths, an interesting study out of Germany found that with increasing religiosity, Christian teens became less violent. The research also found, however, that with increasing religiosity, Muslim teens became more violent. That was back in 2010. Now, 15 years later, another study in Germany finds that violence among migrant children is exploding. Meanwhile, native German youth are actually becoming more peaceful.

(If the Morlocks and Eloi come to mind for you here, you’re not alone. You’re also probably over 45 [if you’d make that association].)

Of course, none of this means the German kinder are “Christian,” except in name (secularism reigns in today’s Western Europe). Nor does it mean all the criminal migrant youths are Muslim, though an inordinate percentage would be. Germany isn’t alone, either, as some other nations are also experiencing this fruit of diversity. Why, some migrant children are “waging war” in Norway, with two 13-year-olds having hurled grenades at a storefront in September. The kicker:
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November 5, 2025

Almost a Republican Sweep Last Night—if Only Men Voted

By Selwyn Duke

It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself last night. In fact, Tuesday, November 4 was a great day for the GOP.

That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote.

Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there were three major races, and men broke Republican in all of them. They went for Winsome Earle-Sears for governor (all figures represent percentages), 53-47; John Reid for lieutenant governor, 55-44; and Jason Miyares for attorney general, 57-42.

Meanwhile, in the upside-down, women broke Democrat in all three races by even wider margins. They supported Abigail Spanberger for governor, 64-36; Ghazala Hashmi for lieutenant governor, 62-38; and mad texter Jay Jones for attorney general 58-41.
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November 4, 2025

Beyond the Cotton Field: How “Racist” Was Pre-Civil-Rights-Era America, Really?

By Selwyn Duke

The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the U.S. almost 100 years before the civil-rights era or affirmative action’s birth.

Yes, you read that right. Grant was admitted to Harvard Dental School in 1868 and then became Harvard University’s first black faculty member in 1871.

Grant wasn’t alone, either (except in his golf-invention exploits). By 1920, there were 3,560 black physicians in America, a figure including 65 black women. While this didn’t represent “proportionality” — blacks were 10 percent of the U.S. at the time — it did constitute 2.5 percent of the total number of American physicians. Not bad in a country supposedly so “white supremacist” that blacks were surely relegated at the time to cotton-fields toil. (Black youths may want to ponder this, too, when believing they “just can’t make it” in 2025 because the “man” is keeping them down.)

Many wouldn’t guess black Americans enjoyed such success a century or more ago, indoctrinated as they are with Howard Zinn-esque revisionist history. In fact, while I was hardly a politically correct youth (we didn’t use the word “woke” back then), I myself was surprised when getting a glimpse into actual American history.
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